Improvement in bracelets



A. FUBES.

Bracelets.

Patented Dec. 2,1873.

No.`145,l64.

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WITNEESEE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Y AVERY EoEEs, oE ATTLEBonoUeH, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BRACELETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,164, dated December y2, 1873; application filed February 20, 1873.

-ment in Bracelets, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists incstriking up the piece which forms the lining of the bracelet in such shape as to impart additional l stiffness to the same, and prevent it from springing off from the front piece, to which it is soldered. The object of this invention is to remedy a defect shown in all bracelets where a lining is soldered upon the two turned edges of the front piece, owing to the springing apart and breaking of the solder by an accidental Strain ofthe two pieces. But when the strip which forms the lining is struck up in a die, giving it a suitable depression toward the front piece, the defect referred to will be in a great measure removed.

Figure l represents an edge View of the bracelet. Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken in the line x a'. Fig. 3 is a section taken in the line y y.

A is the piece of stock forming the front of the bracelet, and B the strip forming the lining, whichhas heretofore been either made plain or slightly curved toward the wrist of the wearer, but which I depress in the middle by means of suitable dies, (substantially as Shown-at b in the drawing,) which will impart rigidity to the lining, and serve to hold it in place when soldered to the edges a a ofthe front A.

In addition to .soldering the edges e a, as

4heretofore practiced by others, I prefer to A, and soldered to the front at the edges a a,

and at the central or depressed portieri b, substantially as described.

AVERY FOBES. Witnesses:

S. SCHOLFIELD, D. B. POTTER. 

